Book fair features celebrated authors, highlights China's outreach to world

Celebrated Chinese writers Liu Cixin and Yu Hua made presentations on Wednesday, the opening day of the 25th Beijing International Book Fair and the 16th Beijing International Book Festival. Their appearance created a buzz among fairgoers.

Yu Hua, author of To Live, met about 30 Sinologists, including some of his translators.

"The translations are not inferior to the original literary text to me; they are parallel," Yu said. "My connections with Sinologists, as well as foreign publishers, helped my works to be accepted in foreign markets."